VHP to hold mandir meets in all Lok Sabha seats

TNN | Nov 7, 2018, 07:42 IST

NEW DELHI: The VHP has pledged to hold public meetings in all Lok Sabha constituencies, seeking support of MPs for passage of a bill in the coming winter session for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya even as the case remains pending in the Supreme Court.

"VHP is confident that the Narendra Modi government will bring such a bill in Parliament's winter session as it is a dispensation of Ram bhakts (devotees of Ram)," VHP president Alok Kumar said. BJP MP Rakesh Sinha has proposed to bring a private member's bill in Rajya Sabha.

VHP's campaign for construction of the temple at the earliest is significant as senior BJP leaders have said the two organisations are of the same view.

Saffron outfits are optimistic that none of the main parties will oppose the bill as Kumar referred to Congress’s “janeu dhari” (one who wears sacred thread) president Rahul Gandhi’s temple visits saying Congress can’t oppose construction of the temple.

With Lok Sabha elections less than six months away, political observers believe RSS — whose chief Mohan Bhagwat’s demand for a law has generated a storm of support, including from many Union ministers — and BJP will use the key Hindutva plank to build a narrative in its favour.

Though neither the government nor the BJP have made their stand clear on the demand of Hindutva groups for a law to pave the way for the temple’s construction, ministers and other party leaders have been speaking in its favour.

The momentum generated by the debate will suit it politically, BJP believes, more so as the Hindutva credentials of Modi as well as party president Amit Shah are seen to be impeccable. VHP delegations led by seers will meet governors of states to urge them to convey to the Centre the “popular” wish to construct the temple.

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